Ferry tales in Istanbul
The Australian
October 25, 2014 12:00AM
Susan Kurosawa
Travel Columnist
Sydney
ISTANBUL, I soon discover, is all about water. Not just the enjoyable rituals of sluicing and soaping at traditional hammam but the process of getting about. The Bosphorus Strait splits the city into Europe and Asia, and this most slender of the world’s great waterways joins the Mediterranean in the southwest and the Black Sea in the northeast. My guide tells me, without enthusiasm, that a contentious third link across the Bosphorus, the Golden Horn Metro swing bridge, which includes extended and much-needed railway lines, opened in February.
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